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Money laundering

  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Entain PLC
    Ladbrokes owner sued over anti-money laundering breaches by Australian watchdog

    Austrac says Entain failed to identify and assess risks

    Outside a Ladbrokes betting shop in London
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Money launderer for Russian spies won deal to help defend Ukraine power plant

    Sanctioned ‘entrepreneur’ awarded sensitive state contract to provide parts for Dnipro hydroelectric station damaged by Russian missiles

    Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    UK uncovers criminal crypto network

    Multibillion-dollar ring connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies

    Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders

    From left: Smart’s Ekaterina Zhdanova, TGR’s office near London’s Oxford Circus and TGR’s George Rossi and Elena Chirkinyan
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Lombard Odier & Cie
    Swiss prosecutor charges Lombard Odier with money laundering

    Former employee of private bank also charged in case relating to daughter of former Uzbekistan president

    A bronze plaque with the inscription ‘Lombard Odier’ and ‘Banque Lombard Odier & Cie SA’ is mounted on a wall outside the bank's building in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Wise
    Wise rebuked by European watchdog over money laundering controls

    Regulatory review in 2022 found fintech lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers

    Montage of Wise app on a mobile phone in foreground, and Wise logo and close-up of sterling note in background
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    UK property
    UK property worth £6bn bought using suspicious funds

    Most deals channelled through companies registered in British Virgin Islands

    British Virgin Islands
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    UK imposes sanctions on Isabel dos Santos in money laundering crackdown

    Africa’s former richest woman and exiled Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash among trio hit by measures

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The scourge of corporate secrecy

    A concerted push towards open-access data is needed to fight dirty money

    George Town in the Cayman Islands
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    British Overseas Territories
    UK MPs call for transparency to help tackle tax evasion in overseas territories

    Speedy establishment of public registers of beneficial ownership seen as vital in crackdown

    A signpost with various destinations such as Liverpool, Sri Lanka, and New York stands next to the clear blue-green waters at Rum Point dock on Grand Cayman's north side. A long pier stretches out into the sea under a partly cloudy sky, with palm trees and lounge chairs in the foreground.
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Metro Bank
    Metro Bank fined £17mn for anti-money laundering control failings

    UK lender failed to ensure automated system was correctly checking customer transactions

    A Metro Bank branch
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    FTX Trading Ltd
    FTX’s engineering chief Nishad Singh spared prison time in fraud case

    Coder was one of several members of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle to testify against their former boss at trial

    Nishad Singh exits court with Claire Watanabe
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Latvia
    Former bank boss in Latvia jailed for ordering killing of whistleblower

    LPB Bank owner Mihails Ulmans sentenced to 15 years over hit on lawyer who suspected money-laundering

    Businessman Mihails Ulmans is escorted into the court session in the Vidzeme suburb court of the city of Riga
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Lebanon
    Lebanon placed on global money-laundering ‘grey list’

    Financial Action Task Force decision comes after political inaction and could complicate remittance payments

    This aerial view taken from a Hellenic Air Force aircraft carrying medical aid supplies to Lebanon shows the skyline and port of Beirut
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Nigeria drops money laundering charges against detained Binance executive

    US citizen who heads financial crime compliance at crypto exchange had been held since February

    Tigran Gambaryan at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria in April 2024
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    News in-depthSanjeev Gupta
    The semi-retired book-keeper preparing Sanjeev Gupta’s accounts

    Metals magnate turns to septuagenarian accountant after struggling to appoint auditor

    FT montage of Sanjeev Gupta and Ken Tointon, with a photo of a steelworks in the background
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    News in-depthTD Bank
    ‘An easy target’: the Canadian bank favoured by money launderers

    TD Bank employees received bribes in the form of gift cards and cash deposits into their accounts to look the other way

    image showing Da Ying Sze depositing $372,000 in cash at a TD Bank branch in midtown New York in 2020
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    TD Bank
    TD Bank to pay $3bn in US case over money laundering lapses

    Prosecutors say Canadian lender failed to remedy ‘long-term, pervasive and systemic deficiencies’ because of cost controls

    The TD Bank logo on a building
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    F1 tycoon’s ex son-in-law on trial over £200mn money laundering scheme

    James Stunt is one of five men accused of allowing Mayfair offices to be used for criminal purposes

    James Stunt
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Starling Bank Ltd
    Starling Bank fined £29mn over ‘shockingly lax’ crime controls

    FCA says lender’s efforts to identify potential money laundering ‘did not keep pace’ with its growth

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Sheikh Hasina
    Britain asked to investigate assets linked to ousted Bangladeshi regime

    Dhaka central bank probes whether allies of autocrat Sheikh Hasina diverted upwards of £13bn overseas

    Emerson Bainbridge House in London
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Swedbank AB
    Former Swedbank chief faces prison over money-laundering scandal

    Birgitte Bonnesen becomes first banker convicted over Estonia money-laundering affair

    Swedbank’s former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen arrives at court
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK regulator charges man with unlawfully running crypto ATMs

    Move by Financial Conduct Authority marks first criminal prosecution for activity widely used for money laundering

    The Financial Conduct Authority offices
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

    A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne Applebaum

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Unexplained wealth orders
    Azeri banker’s wife forfeits £14mn Knightsbridge home and golf club

    Zamira Hajiyeva’s assets have been under investigation by UK National Crime Agency for six years

    The Mill Ride golf club near Ascot
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